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Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad



On Fri 01 Jul 2016 at 00:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Friday 01 July 2016 00:14:34 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Fri, 01 Jul 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > assumed, it wasn't asked to remove anything.  It was asked to add one
> > > thing which in now way depended on anything removed.  That is what
> > > puzzles me.  And
> >
> > I don't know why it would do that.  Well, it shouldn't ask about
> > deleting one thousand packages if you asked it to install one package...
> > but it certainly is supposed to ask about installing that one package
> > *after* informing you that it would remove one thousand packages in
> > order to do that.
> 
> Yes.  I expressed myself badly.  I was having difficulty seeing the screen and 
> therefore typing.  If I ask for one thing and it asks no questions at all I 
> expect it to install only one thing.  If it wants to install a load of 
> dependencies, or, even worse, remove half the system, I expect it ot ask 
> me!!!
> 
> > Note that I am assuming neither of you did "aptitude -y", that would be
> > bad and would also explain what happened.
> 
> I used bash's history to confirm that I had had no such mental aberration.  It 
> confirmed that, after the root screen prompt, I had typed:
> aptitude install libreoffice-grammarcheck-en-gb
> and nothing else - well, <enter>, of course.

The outcome of the command may very well be due to previous history
during during the upgrade. You really need to look at that before
concluding it is aptitude itself which is at fault. /var/log/apt is
the place to scour for clues.


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